To get an adrenaline rush, many go in for extreme sports. In their opinion, they get extraordinary sensations that are simply impossible to convey in words. One of the most extreme activities is jumping without a parachute.

A bit of history

People tried to conquer the heavenly expanses in the distant past, but most of the attempts ended in failures. Flying in the sky is not a gimmick today as there are many different possibilities. For example, airplanes, hang gliders, parachutes. But for some people, such flights do not give the desired sensation, so they decide on very crazy actions. The most extreme of them is considered the jump without a parachute, carried out by American Luke Aikins on July 30, 2016 from a height of 7620 meters (25,000 feet). To make such a jump, I had to train for a long time and take into account the huge number of possible nuances that could occur, both during the jump and already upon landing.

Luke Aikins is the second person in the world to fly completely without a parachute from a great height, and survived. There are more interesting facts from history.

1. Attempts to fly like a bird in the sky were made back in 1930, but they were not safe. Based on this, in America from the beginning of 1950 to 1980, any attempt to test the wings of a "bat" for flight was completely banned.
2. In the mid-1990s, a special wing suit was introduced by the Frenchman Patrick de Gaillard. His invention differed from the previous suit by having three wings instead of two. Moreover, they were two-layer and could be inflated by the oncoming flow.

Thanks to the created special suit, a new type of parachuting was founded, it is called. Its essence lies in the fact that a person wearing "wings" can jump from an airplane or from any hill and fend off in the air, for example, like flying squirrels. But a parachute is still required to soften the landing. The fact is that during the flight, a sufficiently high speed develops, and this can cause very negative consequences. For clarity, it should be noted that the initial flight speed when jumping from a 4-kilometer height can be about 180 km / h.

Today, jumping without a parachute from a great height is also practiced, but in the process of free flight, extreme people still wear it. For example, before jumping from an airplane, a parachute is initially thrown, which then needs to be caught and put on. You can also take it from the person who jumped with a parachute. You can also note several incredible facts when people jumped without a parachute:

1. In 2012, British stuntman Gary Connery jumped in a special suit with wings from a height of 732 meters. He is the first and only person who did not use a parachute at all. He landed in a semblance of airplanes landing on a runway. In his case, it was replaced by a 100 meter strip lined with 18,500 cardboard boxes.
2. Wingsuiters include quite a lot of people who landed without a parachute, since it did not open in time or some unpredictable incidents occurred. But all of them had very unpleasant consequences, and some required quite serious medical attention.

In conclusion, it must be said that humanity continues to continue to expand the boundaries of the possible and the jump without a parachute as an American is proof of this. It is worth considering that his extreme flight was thought out and calculated to the smallest detail. As the record holder noted after a successful landing, that everything turned out thanks to science and mathematics.

American skydiver Luke Aikins set a unique record by jumping without a parachute from a height of 7600 meters. After two minutes of flight, the 42-year-old extreme man landed on a grid stretched above the ground, measuring 30 by 30 meters. The free fall speed reached 53 meters per second. "Lenta.ru" - about what happened before and after the insane action.

"I still want to live - I have a wife, children"

“If I wasn't worried, I would be called an idiot. When I was first offered to make such a jump, I refused. Any sane person would do that. I still want to live - I have a wife and children. Once I got up in the middle of the night and thought - is it possible to do this at all? After all, if they offer it, then there is some way. " These words Luke Aikins uttered a few minutes after one of the most reckless acts in the history of mankind, which hardly anyone will dare to repeat in the near future.

Luke Aikins jumped from a light plane over the city of Simi Valley, California from a height of 25 thousand feet (just over 7,600 meters). During the flight, he was accompanied by three. One was broadcasting live for television. Another periodically let Aikins breathe from an oxygen mask. The third corrected the flight.

The athlete's outfit is a green suit for parachute jumping, a helmet, a thick collar around his neck to fix the vertebrae upon landing. A video camera was attached to the chest, the signal from which was also received by the television crew.

In flight, the extreme was guided by special spotlights placed around a net with an area of ​​about a third of the football field. As soon as the skydiver deviated from the correct trajectory, the special equipment immediately informed him and the insurance team. At an altitude of about 1,500 meters, the escorts opened their parachutes - Aikins landed alone.

The record holder noted that although one can now say about this jump “how easy it is,” everything was very serious for him. “We did it, I want to thank everyone for their support. I always thought that if you prepare correctly, if you train correctly, then you are capable of anything. During the flight, I felt like a levitating monk or a saint. Indescribable feelings!" - admitted Aikins on Facebook.

According to him, as a child, he was inspired by the example of US Air Force officer Joseph Kittinger, who set a world record on August 16, 1960 - he jumped with a parachute from a height of 31,300 meters. And in 2012, Aikins was one of the consultants of the Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner, a new record of 38,900 meters. “My whole life has been devoted to air, aviation, flying ... I hope that this will give a boost to the imagination of people and that the children will see the science behind it all,” says Aikins.

Outstanding act

Behind him there are about 18 thousand parachute jumps. He first stepped overboard in tandem with an instructor thirty years ago. However, when a friend suggested that he dive without a canopy, Aikins refused. “Great idea, I will help find someone who wants to do this, but I myself will not do it, this is not for me,” the parachutist replied.

But in the end he changed his mind. A clear jump and landing scheme was thought out. In Simi Valley, near Los Angeles, an elastic safety net was pulled on four high-rise cranes. Under it, just in case, another one.

The preparation took about a month. Before the jump, Aikins trained a lot: he studied the wind rose and air currents in the area. During the tests, one of the dummies dropped from a height at a speed of about 200 kilometers per hour broke through the net in front of the extreme, which hardly added to his enthusiasm. Until the last moment he was recommended to jump with belay. They forced him to take his parachute with him before boarding the plane. But Aikins didn’t wear it — the extra weight would have prevented him from planning.

One of the main problems with such a jump is a sharp drop in altitude, which causes jumps in blood pressure. This is fraught with heart attack and stroke. Another danger is thin air. “Even if you jump from a height of 5 thousand meters, it is better to do it with an oxygen mask. Otherwise, you can lose consciousness. At such an altitude, not to mention 7.5 kilometers, the air is rarefied, so there may be hypoxia, oxygen starvation, "Life.ru quotes resuscitator Artem Lugovoy.

Finally, landing. “The experts are great, they have calculated the tension of the net, which can smoothly stop the falling parachutist. In addition, a miss literally 10-15 meters from the center of the grid would have led to a tragedy, and then, of course, this video would have collected even more views, but, thank God, everything worked out, and the athlete made a stop with precision, " interview with the radio station "Moscow speaking" senior coach of the Russian national team for dome piloting Vadim Niyazov.

Landing exactly on a 30 x 30 meter grid is a super difficult task. Moreover, Aikins turned his back to the ground.

“The maneuver with a flip to the back is not difficult in itself. The difficulty was that, having turned over, he could no longer see the landing site. And a slight deviation from the course could be fatal. The very moment of the stopping of the falling body did not occur so quickly, this reduced the overload. It was not easy to get into a given square during free fall, while being close enough to the ground. This is an outstanding, bold and risky leap. I don’t think there will be many repetitions of this kind, ”Niyazov summed up.

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Almost all of us, at least once, have committed some crazy act in our life. For some, a crazy act is to pack their bags at the age of 18 and leave to live in another city. For others, race along the Autobahn at 260 km / h. For the third - to jump from the bungee. But all this is nothing compared to what the heroes of this post did. What is just a jump without a parachute from an airplane flying at an altitude of 7.6 km.

site collected 10 crazy actions of people, which hardly any of us will dare to repeat. And not because there is no possibility, but because ... scary.

Jump from space

On October 14, 2012, 43-year-old Austrian paratrooper Felix Baumgartner parachuted from the conditional boundary between space and the earth's atmosphere - from a height of 39 km (although an altitude of 36.5 km was originally planned). A minute later, the extreme has overcome the supersonic barrier, reaching a speed of 1,357.6 km / h, and thus became the first person in the world who managed to do this without any vehicle. Baumgartner was in free flight for 4 minutes 20 seconds, and in general his descent lasted about 14 minutes.

By the way, the altitude record lasted until October 25, 2014: then it was beaten by one of the top managers of Google Alan Eustace, who jumped from a height of 41.42 km. But this event was not so spectacular, moreover, Eustace used a stabilizing parachute.

Descent to the bottom of the Mariana Trench

On March 26, 2012, the famous director James Cameron for the first time in the history of mankind single-handedly descended to the deepest point of the oceans. At a depth of 11 km, Cameron stayed for about 3 hours. During the dive, the director filmed a video, and also carried out scientific measurements with the help of special equipment, including taking several soil samples and catching several deep-sea creatures. The film he shot was broadcast in 2013 in cinemas and on the National Geographic channel.

Note that the first dive to the bottom of the Mariana Trench was made in 1960 by US Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh and explorer Jacques Piccard.

Surfer conquered the biggest wave in the world

Brazilian surfer Rodrigo Cox conquered the largest wave in the world - 24.38 m in November 2017.The judges officially announced this at the Big Wave Awards ceremony held in California in April 2018, and added that this record will be included in the Book Guinness records.

A record was set off the coast of the Portuguese city of Nazare. This city is known for its high waves created by the underwater canyon of the same name.

I walked 142 thousand km. Barefoot!

68-year-old pensioner Vladimir Nesin from Nizhnevartovsk has been traveling on foot around the world for 22 years. Barefoot! Recently, a man calculated that over the years he has walked 142 thousand km, visiting more than 120 countries. And he walks barefoot, because in this way "he feels a connection with the earth, and it is good for health." Vladimir does not use maps and a compass, sometimes uses a hitchhiker, most often spends the night in a tent, eats $ 1 a day, and most importantly, travels on his 12,000-ruble pension.

Almost an hour in "clothes" of 637 thousand bees

In 2012, a fearless Chinese named Ruan Liangming set a world record by wearing a "mantle" of bees on his body, the total weight of which exceeded 62 kg. According to estimates, about 637 thousand bees swarmed around on and around his body. At the same time, in such "clothes" of stinging insects, he lasted almost 54 minutes, which was recorded by representatives of the Guinness Book of Records.

Ride on the roof of the car at a speed of 260 km / h

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By water by boat at a speed of 511 km / h

In 1976, Australian racer Ken Warby set an absolute record for speed on water. His speedboat moved along the surface of the lake at a speed of 511 km / h. This record achievement has also not been beaten to this day.

The extreme walked along the cable for almost a kilometer

Swiss extreme sportsman Freddy Nock in 2011 set 7 records in 7 days in the Alps as part of a charity event under the auspices of UNESCO. In particular, he walked on the cable car leading to the highest mountain in Germany called the Zugspitze, almost a kilometer without belay and balancer.

The person in the video is called Travis Pastrana, all the details are on the website.

In general, this is the Guinness World Record for jumping from an airplane without a parachute

Here's what experienced people write:

- Well, in principle, people have all sorts of desires, someone wants to jump the base, thinking that he is safer than a skydive and that everything is fine, someone begins to feel like a hero and wants, without experience, to jump at night or jump from 4000m without an instructor and AFF classes, but these are all common cases. It's just that when for the first time you look at this whole thing from a monitor or TV screen, then everything is very beautiful, delightful, inspiring, but at the same time no one sees the other side of the coin. Immediately, questions like "Where do they teach bass, how to start jumping?" When you already begin to delve a little into everything that happens, then each time you understand how much more complicated everything is than it seemed. Well, if a person has such a great desire and aspiration, then I think you shouldn't beat off everything in the bud, but you shouldn't help to get out. Let him go and jump in a standard manner with a parachute from a normally flying plane, start parachuting, and then awareness will come. You look, if the priorities do not change in a couple of years, which I really doubt, then you will come to the originally set goal.

- in order to try to prepare and do this, I think you may need to actively engage in parachuting for 3-4 years (well, if in days, then about 1095-1461 days), for which it is desirable to make at least 1000 jumps.

And people ask:

- were there such people in Russia? interested in the price of the issue, provided there are no jumps. preparation time in days and approximate price in rubles. I ask you to answer only on the merits

And the answer is in 2010 prices

- Well, in fact, in the west, parachuting is developed and popularized much better than ours, and they jump there more often and sometimes more recklessly. When it is already difficult to surprise or be surprised at something, then for the sake of action they perform tricks, etc. Such tricks were not performed by many, but, as a rule, they were very experienced athletes (by the way, some of them played out). So we are not even talking about such a trick in the absence of jumping experience and not for any earthly money. A beginner simply will not be able to hold onto a free fall, he needs to be trained. Experienced for such a trick, you can try to call a person jumping a free-fly with at least 1000 jumps, although even this is not enough. The main thing is that these jumps are effective. There you can also add training in a wind tunnel.

Well, I called the money quite acceptable
600r one jump, 1000 jumps 600t. rub
Let's not forget to spend about 40,000 rubles for AFF
For equipment about 200,000 rubles (system, and other junk)
It is advisable to jump periodically with an instructor - how much money depends on how many lessons there will be
A good flight in a tube, where one hour costs 22,000 rubles

Moreover, every weekend you need to spend at the airfield, in short, you need to actively engage in parachuting. Well, if in a couple of years that you will actively jump and the desire to perform this trick does not disappear, then you will get acquainted with those thugs who want to help you.

It is said to be called banzai skydiving. Apparently, ordinary parachute jumps do not provide enough thrills for Japanese parachutists, so they jump out of a flying plane after throwing a parachute out of it. The idea is to catch your parachute in flight, put it on and dismiss it before dying from hitting the ground.

This "sport" was originally invented in order to get into the Guinness Book of Records. A record of this can be found in the 2007 edition of the Book. After the publication of the Book, Banzai skydiving quickly became popular in Japan, where anything outside the normal range is a success.

But not everything is so simple, here they hardly caught a man.

You may think that this is editing. We have already seen cats flying and what we have not seen. However, as it is not surprising, but there is such a "trick" for extreme sports, as jumping without a parachute. Of course, a little later he puts on a parachute, but for a certain time he flies just like that ...

Risk for risk has been discussed a hundred times. Here are some details and examples of this crazy action ...

The person in the video is called Travis Pastrana, all the details are on the website.

In general, this is the Guinness World Record for jumping from an airplane without a parachute

Here's what experienced people write:

- Well, in principle, people have all sorts of desires, someone wants to jump the base, thinking that he is safer than a skydive and that everything is fine, someone begins to feel like a hero and wants, without experience, to jump at night or jump from 4000m without an instructor and AFF classes, but these are all common cases. It's just that when for the first time you look at this whole thing from a monitor or TV screen, then everything is very beautiful, delightful, inspiring, but at the same time no one sees the other side of the coin. Immediately, questions like "Where do they teach bass, how to start jumping?" When you already begin to delve a little into everything that happens, then each time you understand how much more complicated everything is than it seemed. Well, if a person has such a great desire and aspiration, then I think you shouldn't beat off everything in the bud, but you shouldn't help to get out. Let him go and jump in a standard manner with a parachute from a normally flying plane, start parachuting, and then awareness will come. You look, if the priorities do not change in a couple of years, which I really doubt, then you will come to the originally set goal.

- in order to try to prepare and do this, I think you may need to actively engage in parachuting for 3-4 years (well, if in days, then about 1095-1461 days), for which it is desirable to make at least 1000 jumps.

And people ask:

- were there such people in Russia? interested in the price of the issue, provided there are no jumps. preparation time in days and approximate price in rubles. I ask you to answer only on the merits

And the answer is in 2010 prices

- Well, in fact, in the west, parachuting is developed and popularized much better than ours, and they jump there more often and sometimes more recklessly. When it is already difficult to surprise or be surprised at something, then for the sake of action they perform tricks, etc. Such tricks were not performed by many, but, as a rule, they were very experienced athletes (by the way, some of them played out). So we are not even talking about such a trick in the absence of jumping experience and not for any earthly money. A beginner simply will not be able to hold onto a free fall, he needs to be trained. Experienced for such a trick, you can try to call a person jumping a free-fly with at least 1000 jumps, although even this is not enough. The main thing is that these jumps are effective. There you can also add training in a wind tunnel.

Well, I called the money quite acceptable

600r one jump, 1000 jumps 600t. rub

Let's not forget to spend about 40,000 rubles for AFF

For equipment about 200,000 rubles (system, and other junk)

It is advisable to jump periodically with an instructor - how much money depends on how many lessons there will be

A good flight in a tube, where one hour costs 22,000 rubles

Moreover, every weekend you need to spend at the airfield, in short, you need to actively engage in parachuting. Well, if in a couple of years that you will actively jump and the desire to perform this trick does not disappear, then you will get acquainted with those thugs who want to help you.

It is said to be called banzai skydiving. Apparently, ordinary parachute jumps do not provide enough thrills for Japanese parachutists, so they jump out of a flying plane after throwing a parachute out of it. The idea is to catch your parachute in flight, put it on and dismiss it before dying from hitting the ground.

This "sport" was originally invented in order to get into the Guinness Book of Records. A record of this can be found in the 2007 edition of the Book. After the publication of the Book, Banzai skydiving quickly became popular in Japan, where anything outside the normal range is a success.

But not everything is so simple, here they hardly caught a man.